The 2023 Cloud Security Survey

With organizations rapidly adopting to the cloud to secure their environments from increasing prevalent data thefts, securing the cloud is the need of the hour. To understand the current cloud landscape and the demand for cloud security solutions,

ManageEngine surveyed around

500 US-based IT professionals

spanning various industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and government.

To cloud or not?

Rapid shift to the cloud fuelled by prevailing cyberattacks

0%

of surveyed organizations opt for multi-cloud applications

0%

have deployed a hybrid cloud system

0%

plan to adopt cloud computing within the next 24 months

Despite the increase in

cloud adoption, cloud confidence is still a major concern

Cloud account compromise

Unauthorized
access by malicious or
untrusted application

Unauthorized
access to cloud data by
an internal data

Accidental data exposure

Policy misconfiguration

Respondents believe that the most common and impactful cloud security threats were:

0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

0%Cloud account compromise

0%Unauthorized access by malicious or untrusted application

0%Unauthorized access to cloud data by an internal data

0%Accidental data exposure

0%Policy misconfiguration

Respondents believe that the most common and impactful cloud security threats were:

Reinforcing the network with

proper security tools

of the respondents noted they have used different security tools to protect data, monitor user access, adhere to compliance mandates, and gain visibility into cloud activities.

said they plan to evaluate a solution that performs all of these from a single console

The great CASB

0%

of the surveyed organizations use a

CASB solution

to secure their cloud infrastructure

Out of this group,

0%

use a cloud-hosted CASB tool,

0%

have deployed the solution on-premises

CASB for compliance

0%

said that a CASB should effectively block malicious apps and services

0%

wanted the CASB solution to have audit-ready compliance reports

0%

of the respondents wanted the CASB solution to provide recommendations to resolve compliance violations

0%

wanted a CASB solution for policy enforcement

The future is CASB

94%

of the respondents said they would advise other organizations to deploy a CASB solution for their cloud security needs

94%

of those who have a CASB solution in their organization would like to monitor Google Drive for better visibility

57 - 59%

would like to monitor Azure, Salesforce, and AWS

Enter ManageEngine Log360

Log360 is a unified SIEM solution

with integrated DLP and CASB capabilities, that detects, investigates, and helps resolve security threats. This all-encompassing software provides holistic security visibility across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid networks with its intuitive and advanced security analytics and monitoring capabilities.

ManageEngine commissioned Censuswide, a global market research consultancy, to determine how cloud security is perceived, adopted, and evolving. More than 500 IT professionals based in the United States were surveyed in the healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and government sectors.